There are almost 7000 languages in the world, but every two weeks one goes silent. People who speak the world’s dominant languages—English, Spanish, Chinese—believe that a common language binds us and makes us one unified people. But such unification is also a loss of culture.
A language that is embedded into song, behavior and belief keeps a community intact. Language is an intimate moral compass, a belonging.
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